English words starting with billi

Meanings of Billiard:

noun

A game for two people, played on a billiard table, in which three balls are struck with cues into pockets round the edge of the tabl, with points scored by cannons, pocketing an object ball, or cannoning the cue ball into a pocket. in north america the game is known as english billiards.

Usage examples:

Guests can play billiards or table tennis

adjective

Used in or relating to billiards (= a game played by two people on a table covered in green cloth, in which a long stick is used to hit balls into pockets around the table)

Usage examples:

A billiard table, a billiard ball, the billiard room of the athletic club is decorated with photos …

Meanings of Billiards:

plural noun

A game for two people, played on a billiard table, in which three balls are struck with cues into pockets round the edge of the tabl, with points scored by cannons, pocketing an object ball, or cannoning the cue ball into a pocket. in north america the game is known as english billiards.

Usage examples:

Guests can play billiards or table tennis

Meanings of Billies:

noun

A tin or enamel cooking pot with a lid and a wire handle, for use when camping.

Usage examples:

Roger had our fire going and the billy boiling

Meanings of Billing:

noun

The fact of being advertised or described in a particular way.

Usage examples:

They can justify their billing as premier league favourites

verb

List (a person or event) in a programme.

Usage examples:

They were billed to appear but did not show up

Meanings of Billings:

noun

The process of preparing or sending invoices.

Usage examples:

Faster, more accurate order fulfilment and billing

Meanings of Billingsgate:

proper noun

A london fish market dating from the 16th century. in 1982 the market moved to the isle of dogs in the east end.

Meanings of Billion:

number

The number equivalent to the product of a thousand and a million; 1,000,000,000 or 109.

Usage examples:

A world population of nearly 5 billion

cardinal number

The number equivalent to the product of a thousand and a million; 1,000,000,000 or 10⁹

Usage examples:

A world population of nearly 5 billion

Meanings of Billionaire:

noun

A person possessing assets worth at least a billion pounds or dollars.

Usage examples:

Melbourne is filling with tycoons, moguls, magnates, billionaires and mere millionaires.

Meanings of Billionaires:

noun

A person possessing assets worth at least a billion pounds or dollars.

Usage examples:

Melbourne is filling with tycoons, moguls, magnates, billionaires and mere millionaires.

Meanings of Billions:

number

The number equivalent to the product of a thousand and a million; 1,000,000,000 or 109.

Usage examples:

A world population of nearly 5 billion

cardinal number

The number equivalent to the product of a thousand and a million; 1,000,000,000 or 10⁹

Usage examples:

A world population of nearly 5 billion

noun

One thousand million: 1,000,000,000

Usage examples:

A loss of £2 billion, the banks lost billions in the crash.

Meanings of Billionth:

ordinal number

Constituting number one billion in a sequence; 1,000,000,000th.

Usage examples:

The birth of india's billionth citizen

Meanings of Billionths:

ordinal number

Constituting number one billion in a sequence; 1,000,000,000th.

Usage examples:

The birth of india's billionth citizen